It’s Fancy Dress Day at Occupy Wall Street! As part of the “day of action,” some OWS protesters in New York City have raided Mom and Dad’s closet (from back when Mom and Dad used to have jobs to go to and didn’t just spend weekdays at the public library or down at OTB) for suit jackets and sensible sock suspenders to camouflage themselves from dim cops who assume business suits mean “do not arrest.”
From the NYDailyNews:
The “day of action” is to begin early, with protesters converging on Wall Street camouflaged in business suits hoping to blend in with office workers trooping out of the subway.
“We will rise from beneath. They can’t stop all of us. It’s going to get crazy,” vowed one organizer. “They took the first shot Tuesday night. [Thursday] we return fire. We will be peaceful, but we will resist.”
The city said it was bracing for tens of thousands of people in the streets.
“The protesters are calling for a massive event aimed at disrupting major parts of the city,” said Howard Wolfson, deputy mayor for governmental affairs. “We will be prepared for that.”
Should be fun, stay safe everyone! [NYDailyNews]
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Who's the ChiCom yelling at the beginning? Is it Butterstick?
Is Governor
Moon BeamBrown somewhere in that crowd?Rock on, OWS!
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According to Fed Ex, Lizzie should be getting my delivery of scarves and things that we both knitted for OWS. I want to see pictures of that!
With Riley Waggaman holding them!
I am waiting for my nice Fedex man, well it's not like I can get on the subway and go anywhere , is it?
When the Fed Ex guy gets there do NOT fall for his lie that he is certified to give mammograms. I found this out the hard way.
But the pap-smear thing is true, right?
Fed Ex is right there for you, at your cervix. The guy slips out early though. So much for it "absolutely, positively having to be there overnight."
I will do the drop either Friday or this weekend, I will take pictures .
If it's the results of your knitting-a-thon of which you speak?.. Pee Wee Herman approves this message.
They're dressing up? Ain't it always the case — you find a nice hippie girl and it turns out she just didn't have enough money to be bourgeois.
Ain't that the truth!
If the NRA-Rethuglicans had their way, these protesters could be exercising their Jeebus-given Second Amendment concealed-weapons-carrying rights. 7.62mm Parabellum — it's not just for breakfast anymore!
I'd just forget trying to infiltrate NYSE and instead occupy Donald Trump's toupee. Now THAT would make a statement. It would bring all reality television to a halt.
So THAT'S where all the lice came from!
It's cold today, I'd dress up as a Furry. PETA can suck it.
You know who else played dress up?
J. Edgar Hoover?
Is the wearing of women's underwear by J. Edgar, dressing up or down?
Well, he was a frumpy man, but I hear he was a classy broad. So, up. Definitely, up.
Arnold Layne?
he did have a strange hobby.
Prince Harry?
John Wayne? I'm serious you boys.
"…and he come to the door in a dress."
Marilyn Monroe, while standing on a subway grate?
Racoon Girl?
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WTF!
Needs more bread.
Mario?
Super Mario?
Bah-dum-dum…
Freddie Mercury?
Perry as Hitler?
Tyler Perry?
Richard Simmons?
Kim Kardashiwhatthefuckian?
Definitely Cleopatra.
(Lookin' good, Cleo!)
Er..wingnuts, about that insane conceal carry law, er..you may want to stop beating these kids up..er..
Now if they could only get a haircut and stop the damn drumming; really it's a lot easier for the media to paint the movement as just a bunch of dirty hippies when a lot of them insist on looking and acting like stereotypical hippies.
Sure!
If only OWS would conform and not make a fuss, then our corporate media would be forced to report the truth (instead of the lies their owners pay them to tell).
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What's with wrong with DFHs?
Subvert the Dominant Paradigm!
That's so going to be my band's name at Eurovision 2012
Peace Man.
Get Clean for Gene!
Kids these days, what with your Walkmans and car phones and long hair. Get the fuck off my lawn!
No, but seriously, you can apologize for other people's shallowness all you want. I'm not going to. Yes, because the media would listen if these folks were dressed in tuxes and top hats and speaking Received Pronunciation-inflected English. We are not amused.
Drum away, you DFHs; drum away.
I was watching Tuesday's Maddow online last night, and Kid Zoom said he thinks OWS needs to more clearly articulate their demands before he can decide whether he agrees with them or not. Poor boy's been infected by the mainstream narrative. Conveniently, the evening repeat of Fresh Air's interview with Tim Dickinson about Republican tax policy for the 1% folks came on shortly afterwards.
how awesome was that interview? i was attempting to run errands during the broadcast and kept getting stuck in my car.
Kid Zoom commented, "This Grover Norquist guy sounds like a real douche." I told him he didn't know the half of it.
He scoffed a bit, at first, when Dickinson was introduced as the political correspondent for Rolling Stone", which gave me an opportunity to talk about that fine publication's alt-journalism cred, including Hunter S Thompson.
i missed the RS heyday, but a couple years back we got a free subscription. i was seriously impressed. and matt taibbi just makes me laugh.
only problem is it's too damn much to absorb weekly.
"You're gonna like the way you look…when getting beaten by a cop."
At least Men's Wearhouse supported #Occupy Oakland.
Actually, these hippies should be taking off their clothes to make it easier for the man to stick it to them.
Finally I can take my Bazooka across state lines. Concealed in my shorts for self protection.
Ohmygod! Suits and ties! Next they'll carry briefacses!
Hard to watch… must be the hangover… or the patchouli.
Good luck and thank you… duck the nightsticks.
I could so blend in-I am old and still have a few suits and respectable shoes-but no actual briefcase.
I have a suit, but I'm saving it for my funeral. It doesn't match my briefcase, anyway.
If the business suite is the new camo how are the rednecks going to paint their pickups and ATVs?
Easy. They'll look like stretch limos.
May have to lose the Truck Nutz, tho.
That's right out of the Mormon Missionary playbook.
Ah, the new American Dream-the unemployed on every corner and pepper spray for every poor.
Worst JoS A Bank commercial ever…and that's saying a lot.
Maybe its the "wake and bake," but this looks like New Orleans at Mardi Gras without boobies.
Good thing it isn't Casual Friday!
We dress like students /
we dress like housewives /
or in a suit and a tie
I've changed my hairstyle /
so many times now/
I don't know what I look like
This ain't no party, this ain't no disco. This ain't no foolin' around.
If this is paradise, I wish I had a lawnmower.
What?
Excellent! I usually wear a suit to our marches so onlookers can confuse me with someone respectable. HA, suckers!
True that . . . Wearing a suit is like having permission to smoke weed in public. Almost makes it worth it.
Someone should go in a sweater as a Howard Wolfson impersonator… http://wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/wo...
Howard Wolfson should go as as person impersonator.
Armani?
Our money? No, it's the 1%'s money…
Can hardly wait for some stockbroker or bankster to get grabbed by mistake, put up just a bit too much resistance, and find himself hauled off in cuffs. Fuhrer Bloomberg will suddenly go all apologetic over the awful "inconvenience". (Not to be confused with rousting people out of bed at 1:00 AM on a rainy night, driving them away, and tossing into garbage trucks whatever they weren't able to carry off with them … that wasn't inconvenient at all.)
or Bloomberg has the arresting officer taken out back and shot–possibly by the stock broker–to serve as an example to the rest of the cops.
Barb's parcel of woollens for the Occupados has arrived in Harlem!
Video or GTFO! Woo hoo! Really — would love to see it.
I will go down to the Occupados probably Saturday afternoon, I will take pix. The woollens will be donated in the name of the Wonkette.
A knitting tree grows in Harlem…
I think I will do my part by borrowing some of my sons hippie/antiracist wear next time I make a call on some of my customers in the financial community. Before you all start yes I suckle on the sweet sweet breast of Wall Street for at least 30% of my company’s top line. I just love the thought of the city having to resort to DNA testing to figure out whom to arrest.
That's OK, as I've said before, you're a good 'un. We'll eat you last.
I just remembered, I have a suit.
I should scrawl "This Machine Kills Fascists" on my guitar with a Sharpie and show up at OWS. I could be the next Woodie Guthrie.
One can't just put on a suit in order to look like a banker. One must also assume the banker's customary expression, one of loathing and contempt for all fellow human beings, mockery of all that is good and decent, all tempered by a bitter inner knowledge that one has irrevocably sold their soul for the meanest self interest and is doomed for eternity. Good luck!
Sorry OWC, it takes more than a suit and tie to pass for a total dick (see Eric Cantor).
I like that. I really like that. It sounds like a motto, or the an eventual book title covering the movement. We shall rise from beneath, indeed. How does one say that in Latin?
Fedex just rang my doorbell, if you'll pardon the expression.
It has arrived, I have to run to the store but will open when I get back.
The seven scarves and five ski-style headbands are all in gallon sized Zip-Loc bags, not the most attractive packaging available. I thought that they could also use the bag to keep their possessions dry. It's so hard to spark up a doobie when it is damp.
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